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no way, that would put him at 39 making $25m... i'm sick of watching old, slow one dimensional players eating up all our salary.

big contracts in baseball simply DONT WORK... And Cano has never been a TRUE ELITE hitter. he's only hit 30 HR's ONCE, he's never had an OBP higher than .380. Those are very good numbers, but not franchise type numbers. At least Arod was a 40-50 hr .400 OBP 1.000+ OPS player...like Pujols and Hamilton. Cano has never sniffed those numbers.

Trade the "stars" when its time to pay them huge money... the thing is these star players get huge contracts to play in their post prime years, its so reversed. Meanwhile the team that drafted them gets prime years for next to nothing.

How do you replace Cano? How do you replace 200 hits a year? How do you replace 25 hr's? How do you replace someone that hits to both sides of the field? How do you replace all the XBH? How do you replace the GG defense? And the biggest question is how do you replace all of that at the same time?

no way, that would put him at 39 making $25m... i'm sick of watching old, slow one dimensional players eating up all our salary.

big contracts in baseball simply DONT WORK... And Cano has never been a TRUE ELITE hitter. he's only hit 30 HR's ONCE, he's never had an OBP higher than .380. Those are very good numbers, but not franchise type numbers. At least Arod was a 40-50 hr .400 OBP 1.000+ OPS player...like Pujols and Hamilton. Cano has never sniffed those numbers.

Trade the "stars" when its time to pay them huge money... the thing is these star players get huge contracts to play in their post prime years, its so reversed. Meanwhile the team that drafted them gets prime years for next to nothing.

So you want to add some dynamics to our offense by trading our best offensive player? ummm...

How do you replace Cano? How do you replace 200 hits a year? How do you replace 25 hr's? How do you replace someone that hits to both sides of the field? How do you replace all the XBH? How do you replace the GG defense? And the biggest question is how do you replace all of that at the same time?

You Dont...

you're right you don't.

but at the same time you have to think long term. There was no way to replace Arods 40+ hr's and 120+rbi a few years ago either, but giving him 200m+ was still insane.

Cano at $175m considering the extension starts when's he about 32 years old is also insane. Cano is not even THAT great, the fact that he's the best offensive 2nd basemen in MLB makes him seem like a better hitter than he really is.

How many great years will he give you? Maybe another 3-4? Then that leaves you paying $25m+ to a 36 year old for 3 years.

at some point we need to do a semi-rebuild... i think that time is now. because its either that or give out more horrendous deals to guys like Curtis & cano.

Now if Cano takes 6/150, then MAYBE you consider it... but even that is really pushing it... the market will dictate he's worth more than that though... and I just don't think he is, especially to us.